At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.
As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.
We actively uphold transparent and fair hiring practices that support individual opportunity, inclusive culture, and career mobility across all levels of our organisation.
We offer meaningful opportunities for growth, a culture of inclusion, and a strong commitment to transparency and integrity in everything we do.
The Senior Corporate Counsel role is to act as a legal adviser with a focus on fintech/payments products. The core part of the role will be advising on contract negotiations, new product creation and engaging with other teams across U.S. Bank Europe DAC and its parent U.S. Bank National Association.
Principal Accountabilities: U.S. Bank both develops proprietary payment solutions and partners with industry-leading companies to offer their products to our customers. This role will support both internal product development and partner relationships providing end to end legal guidance throughout the product development lifecycle, including concept development, design, build, launch readiness, commercialization, and ongoing operations. This includes:
Ensuring global product initiatives comply with regulatory, contractual, and enterprise risk frameworks across Europe by partnering with others within the Bank, Law Division and outside counsel as appropriate.
The Senior Corporate Counsel will build deep product expertise, influence product strategy, and play a key role in ensuring compliant, well structured, and business ready product delivery.
1. Contract Drafting & Negotiation
Draft, review, and negotiate complex technology, commercial, and reseller agreements.
Ensure contract terms align with business objectives, industry standards, U.S. Bank policies, and applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
2. Risk Assessment & Mitigation
Identify and evaluate legal, commercial, and operational risks in product design, development, deployment, and contracting and contribute to risk-mitigation planning.
3. Cross Functional Collaboration
Partner with product, compliance, risk partners, operations teams and others to embed legal considerations into product development.
Collaborate with compliance, risk, and other legal teams to evaluate regulatory, contractual, and operational readiness of new or modified products.
4. Monitoring & Thought Leadership
Monitor emerging laws, regulations, and industry standards impacting technology products, data usage, licensing, intellectual property, and payment solutions.
5. Additional Responsibilities
Develop and refine templates, playbooks, contracting standards, and legal guidance to improve consistency and efficiency.
Familiarity with payment services, global merchant acquiring, alternative payment types, mobile wallets, fraud and security products, financial services regulation, and AI (including agentic AI).
Accessibility
We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need adjustments at any stage of the application or hiring process, please contact your recruiter for guidance and support.
Total Rewards
U.S. Bank is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation practices in line with local regulatory and legal requirements. Our total rewards approach is designed to attract, retain, and support top talent while ensuring equal pay for work of equal value.
We offer a market-competitive compensation package that includes:
Clearly defined salary ranges aligned with industry benchmarks and internal equity standards.
Performance-based incentives for eligible employees (as defined by relevant plan rules), awarded through transparent, objective criteria that recognize both individual and company performance.
Inclusive equitable benefits that are accessible to all employees and focused around our 3 main pillars of financial wellbeing, health & wellness).
Continuous development opportunities including training, education support, and career progression pathways based on inclusive and transparent criteria.
Employee recognition programs that celebrate achievements and milestones for all.
We regularly review our compensation and benefits to ensure they remain competitive, inclusive, and responsive to employee needs and market trends. Further details of the compensation package will be provided upon application.
We encourage candidates to explore the full value of our offer, including monetary and non-monetary benefits, at Employee benefits and development | U.S. Bank | Elavon.
Closing Date
Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.
We aim to provide timely updates throughout the process and encourage early applications to ensure consideration.
